I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
IRVIN D. YALOMThe pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Just as you were about to step on it, I asked you “Do you want to cross the footbridge to me?” – Immediately you did not want to anymore; and when I asked you again you remained silent.
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Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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